Sentences with phrase «reparation costs»

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Affirmative action is, for instance, a form of reparations, and it ill - behooves advocates for reparations to appear dismissive of an initiative that has cost more than a little controversy.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

Consider the huge cost to the economy now for reparation work that must be done following the evil consequences of illegal mining (galamsey) the economy tolerated for bad administration....

Their caution reflected the heavy costs of Napoléon's previous quest for glory: more than 900,000 French soldiers dead, and a depleted national treasury now saddled with millions of francs of reparations due the Allies.

2,» is approximately 9.5 by 13 feet, and the full extent of the damages done to it are unknown but reparations are estimated to cost at least $ 10,000.

The accountancy firm despite seeing off the summons application has been deprived of reparation in relation to its own considerable legal costs and to that extent is now only able to celebrate the type of victory which King Pyrrhus had also to endure.

This will in turn help the injured party obtain the monetary reparations they need to pay mounting medical costs.

It assists in providing reparations for another party's medical expenses and property damage repair cost if you are found at fault in an accident.

Part of the cost incurred for reparation may be covered by some insurers.